Amla, Stoinis and an over of bloopers

Morris' recovery
Chris Morris started poorly, with his first two deliveries straying down leg and going to the fine-leg boundary. He corrected his line and length in his second over by bowling full and straight to M Vijay, who was trying to heave all the deliveries that came his way. Off the second ball off his second over, Morris got one to tail back in slightly and Vijay could only get a thick inside-edge off an attempted pick-up shot. A ball later, Vijay got another inside edge, this time lobbing towards Carlos Brathwaite, who threw himself to his right at midwicket to pluck a one-handed catch. And Morris had made up for his early lapses.

The miscommunication(s)
Hashim Amla's first ball on IPL debut was farcical. He pushed a short ball towards cover, and took a couple of steps outside the crease. That was enough for Marcus Stoinis to be convinced that there was a run. He was more than halfway down the pitch when Amla sent him back. A direct hit from Morris, who sprinted to his left to collect the ball, would have made it two in two for Daredevils. That seemed to set the tone for the rest of Amla's brief innings. Stoinis swiped the first ball of the next over, bowled by Shahbaz Nadeem, to deep square leg and there was drama again. Stoinis was firm on a second, but Amla didn't respond. A sharp throw at the bowler's end followed, but Nadeem failed to collect the ball in his eagerness to break the bails. Stoinis wasn't even in the frame. Off the next delivery, Amla punched the ball towards mid-on, but Nadeem swiftly moved to his right to produce a diving save. Amla was nearly at the bowler's end when he was sent back by Stoinis, who was ball-watching. Nadeem had done everything right except collect the ball, though, and another run-out opportunity was missed.

Third time unlucky
Four balls later, Amla had clearly exhausted his lives as he was run out by a sharp throw from Zaheer Khan at backward point. Searching for a single, he was once again sent back and had to stretch back into the crease, by which time Quinton de Kock had collected the ball and whipped the bails off in a single motion to leave his South Africa team-mate short by a couple of inches.

Stoinis' cross-court forehand
Stoinis, well set on 42, gave Carlos Brathewaite the charge, but was cramped for room as the bowler shortened his length to angle a bouncer on middle. The ball was getting big on Stoinis, but he went through with a one-legged flat-batted pull that sped off the blade to the boundary. The beauty of the shot was as much in his late adjustment as it was about the placement - he bisected deep midwicket and long-on perfectly.

Karun Nair was batting quite comfortably, until he swiped Mohit Sharma's slower delivery towards wide long-on in the 15th over. David Miller, running to his right from long-on, was perhaps distracted by Glenn Maxwell running to his left from deep midwicket. Maxwell backed away as soon as he heard the call of "mine", but Miller ended up getting too close to the ball. The momentum took him forward when the ball lodged in his hands, but less than a second later it bobbled out. At that stage, Daredevils needed 51 off 31 balls.

Fortunately for Kings XI, Miller redeemed himself four balls later as Nair sliced a lofted hit towards long-off. Once again, Miller sprinted in and nearly made the mistake of overrunning and was extremely close to the ball. But the height gave him an extra second to arch back and find some room as he twisted his body sideways to take that catch. A key batsman was dismissed, and Kings XI pushed ahead.